Hail in Lake Butler Jul 28, 2026
Hit 6 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 0", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.
0.5"
≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft206
0
none filedThe 3rd most severe storm Lake Butler has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 46 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Lake Butler saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Where Jul 28, 2026 sits in Lake Butler's hail record
This was Lake Butler's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 66 days after the May 23, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Lake Butler at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than Lake Butler: the same system put hail over 686 other tracked cities, 15 of them in Florida. Nearest: Starke (9 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Fort Mc Coy (51 miles southeast, up to 0.5"); Palatka (55 miles southeast, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Lake Butler's Jul 28, 2026 storm. In the Overview app the same surfaces are live — radar updating in real time, radar-estimated hail size as it forms, and NWS spotter reports pinned where they're filed — with a radar replay you can scrub back over any past day.
What people on the ground reported
These are storm reports filed with the National Weather Service and released through the NOAA Storm Prediction Center — public-domain observations from spotters, the public, and NWS surveys. We quote each one exactly as filed.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Lake Butler for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
What 0.5" hail means for Lake Butler roofs
Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.
$2.5M
Potential roof exposure — 206 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Lake Butler on the live map
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5 recorded storm days in Lake Butler, FL
Other storms in Lake Butler
Jul 30, 2026
0.5"
Jul 29, 2026
1"
May 23, 2026
1.5"
May 17, 2026
1.5"